Make School Different: Digital leadership & Transformation
This post is co-authored with Lynn Fuini-Hetten. The challenge One of the greatest challenges within any digital transformation is bringing about systemic change. Many schools and districts, including our own, have pockets of innovation where … [Continue reading]
I challenge you to take a moment to become self aware about your social media habits. Will you approach this challenge with a growth mindset? I've shared my thoughts previously about the lack of depth in interactions on social media here, here and … [Continue reading]
Enter “k12 digital transformation why” into Google and what you’ll see is a fair number of school districts undertaking digital learning initiatives driven by putting devices in the hands of all students - 1:1 and BYOD. And this is what seems to be … [Continue reading]
Email. Endless email. Phone calls. Texts. State-driven initiatives such as “educator effectiveness,” assessment, new standards, grant applications, data verification and reporting. Meetings. Too many unfocused, unnecessary meetings. Does this … [Continue reading]
In an earlier post titled How do we make our schools amazing places for learners?, I concluded the post with this question: If you’re not the top leadership in your school or district, how do you lead up? You have great ideas to help make your school … [Continue reading]
I like to curate leadership quotes and share them at rziegenfuss.com and on Twitter. Here are some of my recent favorites. Grab a few and share them with your school leader! Start a conversation! Connect with Randy on Twitter and on the … [Continue reading]
I've created a free ebook that will be of value to anyone leading a digital transformation. The ebook contains what I consider to be the three key principles of a successful digital transformation based on my experiences working with stakeholders in … [Continue reading]
Do. A small but mighty word with the potential for lots of nuance around it. It's one of the things that makes being a practitioner so incredible - we get to do the work. There are a lot of people who want to tell us what to do. They are thinkers who … [Continue reading]
I see many bloggers posting their "top posts" this time of year. I wasn't going to share a post of that kind, but once I saw the important theme that emerged from the most-read posts here, I wanted to share. Yes...it may be interesting to see how … [Continue reading]
In last week's post, we started to explore the idea of teachers and leaders as researchers of practice. We learned that educational practitioners have a unique insider perspective and should make research a part of the work. In this week’s post we’ll … [Continue reading]